About this Event
Join Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Graduate Center doctoral student fellows Ju Ly Ban, Cortnie Belser, Jeff Voss, Natasha Tiniacos, Lucien Baskin, Liz Janoff, Michael Villanova, and Kehinde Alonge who will present their archival research projects on poets, writers, artists, and musicians whose contributions to New American Poetry remain understudied, including their political, pedagogical, and activist commitments, deepening and complicating common understandings of past historical and cultural moments.
Following the methodical model of “follow the person,” these 2025 L&F Fellows will present their archival journeys and adventures researching such figures and subjects as: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's archival materials tracing her time from 1980 to 1982 when she lived in New York, working, teaching, preparing exhibitions, and writing Dictee; Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s unpublished poetry and "Tongues of Fire" manuscript; Stuart Hall 's educational writings and & Black feminist educators in London during the late 20th century; Richard Pryor's unknown early writings including poetry, screenplays, and audio transcripts from 1971-1972 when he lived in Berkeley; the letters of Mary Ellen Solt exploring aesthetic, literary, and political dialogues around Concrete Poetry in the 1960s; liner note poetics, oral histories, and political manifestoes from figures as part of Free Jazz tradition and the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and onward; the teaching materials of Gwendolyn Bennett, Claudia Jones, and Mae Mallory who transformed “community othermothering” into radical pedagogy.
Free and open to all. The event will introduced by L&F Faculty Mentors and Editors Zohra Saed and Megan Paslawski.
This event takes place in the SKYLIGHT ROOM (9100) at the CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to all. Register to attend.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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